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East Adams Rural Healthcare was one of just five critical access hospitals in the state to receive a Top Performer Award for Employee Safety by the Washington State Hospital Association, the hospital announced at its Sept. 25 board meeting.

Dan Crisp, the laboratory manager at EARH and the EARH Safety Committee chairman, was on hand at the meeting to discuss the award, which came with a $2,500 reward for EARH’s safety program to spend as the hospital sees fit.

Some of that money, Crisp said, will go toward the planned Skill and Safety Fair that the hospital will be hosting in November. A...